The actor, who among others lent his voice to very great Anglo-Saxon actors, has just passed away at the age of 82.
All French people have surely heard his voice one day. Actor Benoît Allemane died this Sunday January 5, 2025, his 82nd birthday. The news was announced by one of his friends on Facebook. “Benoît Allemane, a friend I shared with many, many people, passed away last night. He had just celebrated his 82nd birthday,” director Lionel Auguste wrote this Monday. Born in 1942 in Clermont-Ferrand, he began his career at the age of 16 in the theater.
From Mirabeau to Churchill, from Pétruchio to Danton, Benoît Allemane had performed more than seventy plays: Sartre, Camus, Dumas, Brecht, Lamoureux, Claudel, Betty, Hugo, Vian, Camus, Chekhov, Pirandello… He participated in many numerous productions by Robert Hossein including John Paul II, We Finish Horses Well, Bonaparte but also Marie Antoinette and Angelique.
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Storyteller (2000 broadcasts on RMC), Benoît Allemanera also records voice-over comments for Arte, la 5, Odyssée, National Geographic…
As a director, Benoît has produced, among others, De Paris en Provence based on Travels in the South of France by Alexandre Dumas, Mary Tudor from Hugo, Stay With Us by Guillemin, The Passion of Péguy et Libra by Pirandello… He had also worked with several YouTubers like Le Joueur du Grenier or Antoine Daniel.
Francois-Pier Pelinard-Lambert
© photo credit: Monte Carlo Festival
